Psalm 78:9

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁸ And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God. ⁹ The sons of Ephraim bending, lifting up the bow, turned in the day of the encounter. ¹⁰ They watched not the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to go;

Day of Battle

Ephraim

Deuteronomy 1:41-44

And ye will answer and say to me, We sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye will gird on each the weapon of his fighting, and ye will act lightly to go up to the mountain.

Joshua 17:16-18

And the sons of Joseph will say, The mountain will not suffice to us: and the chariot of iron among all the Canaanites dwelling in the land of the valley, to whom in the House of Rest and her daughters, and to whom in the valley of Jezreel.

Judges 9:28

And Gaal son of Ebed will say, Who Abimelech, and who Shechem, that we shall serve him? is he not the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his overseer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: and why shall we serve him?

Judges 9:38-40

And Zebul will say to him, Where now thy mouth with which thou wilt say, Who Abimelech, that we shall serve him? is not this the people which thou despised it? now go forth now, and fight with it

Judges 20:39

And the men of Israel will turn about in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike the wounded among the men of Israel, about thirty men: for they said, Surely, smiting, he was smitten as the first battle.

1 Samuel 4:10

And Philisteim will fight and smite Israel, and they will flee, a man to his tent: and the blow will be very great, and there will fall from Israel thirty thousand footmen.

1 Samuel 31:1

And the rovers warred against Israel: and the men of Israel will flee from the face of the rovers, and they will fall wounded in mount Gilboa.

1 Chronicles 12:2

Bending the bows from the right hands and from the left with stones and with arrows, with the bow from Saul's brethren of Benjamin:

Psalm 78:57

And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit

Luke 22:33

And he said to him, Lord, with thee am I ready to go, and to prison, and to death.